TY - GEN
T1 - Augmented reality with maps for off-screen POI awareness
AU - Carmo, Maria Beatriz
AU - Afonso, Ana Paula
AU - Melo, Miguel
AU - Rocha, Bruno
AU - Botan, Victor
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by FCT (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation) through founding of: LASIGE Research Unit, ref. UIDB/00408/2020; BioISI Research Unit, ref. UID/MULTI/04046/2019; and project DSAIPA/DS/ 0039/2018. The authors are also thankful to the volunteers that participated in the user study.
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© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - Augmented Reality (AR) applications for mobile devices are common nowadays, however the information superimposed over the image captured by the device's camera is limited to its field of view. To address this problem in the visualization of points of interest (POI), we have combined the AR view with the display of the POI's location in a map to increase user awareness about nearby POI. It gives insight about the orientation and distance between the POI and the user. We developed 3 solutions: (1) including cues to off-screen POI in a frame at the border of the AR view and providing an alternative map view; (2) combining the AR view with a mini-map superimposed on its top left corner; and (3) combining the AR view with a circular radar view on its top left corner. A usability study performed to compare these approaches revealed that, although all the approaches were positively appreciated, the solution with a mini-map was the preferred one.
AB - Augmented Reality (AR) applications for mobile devices are common nowadays, however the information superimposed over the image captured by the device's camera is limited to its field of view. To address this problem in the visualization of points of interest (POI), we have combined the AR view with the display of the POI's location in a map to increase user awareness about nearby POI. It gives insight about the orientation and distance between the POI and the user. We developed 3 solutions: (1) including cues to off-screen POI in a frame at the border of the AR view and providing an alternative map view; (2) combining the AR view with a mini-map superimposed on its top left corner; and (3) combining the AR view with a circular radar view on its top left corner. A usability study performed to compare these approaches revealed that, although all the approaches were positively appreciated, the solution with a mini-map was the preferred one.
KW - Augmented Reality
KW - Off-screen objects
KW - Relevance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102957561&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IV51561.2020.00079
DO - 10.1109/IV51561.2020.00079
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102957561
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
SP - 454
EP - 459
BT - 2020 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
A2 - Banissi, Ebad
A2 - Khosrow-Shahi, Farzad
A2 - Ursyn, Anna
A2 - McK. Bannatyne, Mark W.
A2 - Pires, Joao Moura
A2 - Datia, Nuno
A2 - Nazemi, Kawa
A2 - Kovalerchuk, Boris
A2 - Counsell, John
A2 - Agapiou, Andrew
A2 - Vrcelj, Zora
A2 - Chau, Hing-Wah
A2 - Li, Mengbi
A2 - Nagy, Gehan
A2 - Laing, Richard
A2 - Francese, Rita
A2 - Sarfraz, Muhammad
A2 - Bouali, Fatma
A2 - Venturin, Gilles
A2 - Trutschl, Marjan
A2 - Cvek, Urska
A2 - Muller, Heimo
A2 - Nakayama, Minoru
A2 - Temperini, Marco
A2 - Di Mascio, Tania
A2 - Rossano, Filippo Sciarrone Veronica Rossano
A2 - Dorner, Ralf
A2 - Caruccio, Loredana
A2 - Vitiello, Autilia
A2 - Huang, Weidong
A2 - Risi, Michele
A2 - Erra, Ugo
A2 - Andonie, Razvan
A2 - Ahmad, Muhammad Aurangzeb
A2 - Figueiras, Ana
A2 - Mabakane, Mabule Samuel
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 24th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2020
Y2 - 7 September 2020 through 11 September 2020
ER -